Well,
today is Thanksgiving Day. It’s sunny and a little cooler than we’d prefer. It’s only 50 degrees out. I guess we were spoiled
with the temperatures being in the upper 80’s over the past weekend. We do not
have any Turkey to eat or anywhere to go for Turkey dinner. And, we are sort of
missing the traditional Thanksgiving Day feast…. missing our family…kids and
grandkids. But we can hardly complain!
We’re in a beautiful place and on the water. We are healthy, happy and feeling so
fortunate to be doing what we are doing.
We
moved early this morning from the Channel Islands Yacht Club to the Pacific
Corinthian Yacht Club. We are fully taking advantage of the complimentary three
nights free deal for reciprocal yacht club members. We enjoyed where we were quite a bit. We were close to the
Yacht Club and the facilities it had to offer. So far we like it here at the
Pacific Corinthian. We are tied up to the guest dock here. It’s such an easier
landing and exit than being in a slip! We basically had to stay two extra days
at the last place because the winds were ridiculously high and we couldn’t have
gotten out of our slip without pin-balling off the other boats in the fairway.
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| Our boat is the one tied up on the end of the dock |
So,
I think in my last post, last entry, I mentioned going for a 12-mile roundtrip
walk to Trader Joe’s. That did not happen. We decided to stay in that day
because Rick has been fighting off a little cold. But that afternoon a woman
came knocking on our boat to say hello and to introduce herself. It turns out;
she is the wife of a man who Rick purchased our solar panels from a few months
ago. We were hoping to look them
up when we had a moment, but she beat us to it. She was so friendly and she
offered to take me to Trader Joe’s the next day. I accepted because it did
sound better than walking like we had planned! And it’s always nice to meet new
people and to hear their sailing adventures. Well this couple, originally set
sail for Mexico over a year ago, but when they got to the Channel Islands
Harbor, they ended up staying for good, or at least for a few years. Her husband sells solar panels and she
writes for Lectronic Latitude 38 magazine. So they can work anywhere basically
and they have chosen this place for now.
They love it here. I could
see staying here myself for some time too.
So,
the next day after I got the ride to Trader Joe’s and to Ralph’s grocery
stores, Rick, Harley and I took a walk to West Marine for just a few little
items that we needed. Rick really liked this store because it had some really
cool gadgets that he hadn’t seen at the other WM stores. For me, if the clothes
selection is sub par then I’m not a fan of that store. I really like the WM in
Sausalito and the WM in San Diego. Those two stores have great clothes
selections! And, don’t get me started on the Point Richmond WM store…. that
store has the worst clothing selection of all! It started dwindling down over
the past few years we had been going there. Then they completely got rid of
women’s clothing all together. So…I never liked going in that store since. I’m
not saying that I buy lots of clothes in these stores; but I DO like to look
while Rick is busy buying boat parts etc that isn’t as exciting for me.
That
last two days have been unbelievably windy! It was blowing 30-32knots. It
wasn’t fun to do much of anything outside the boat. One morning while it was very windy, I walked Harley to the
beach. It was cold and you could see the waves breaking right on the sand and
the tide had come up quite a bit…more than usual. Since I was all bundled up it didn’t feel too awfully cold,
and I sort of liked seeing the storm brewing off shore. Just happy I was not out in it!
The
next day the wind was still blowing like crazy but I really wanted to see the
beach that was on the other side of the channel. The Silver Strand Beach. It’s
a beach that apparently has great waves and is supposed to be one of the top
beaches around for surfing. We
knew the walk would be a long one, but not as long as it turned out to be. We
took a wrong turn on the way and walked about 2 miles out of our way. So the total
walk to the beach and back was 10 miles. The walk wouldn’t have been so bad
hadn’t we been fighting the wind as we walked. Once we got to the beach, we only saw a couple surfers in
the water but several kite surfers.
It was a real kick to watch the kite surfers! They were flying on top of the water…moving so fast! So we
sat there to watch for a while, then walked back to the boat. We were pretty
tired when we got back and just stayed on the boat the rest of the day.
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| This pattern in the sand was made from the wind alone |
We
heard there was a hurricane coming to Mexico near Cabo and La Paz. Both are
places we planned to have been by now. We have been kicking ourselves most of
the trip that we didn’t get an earlier start, but when we heard the news of the
hurricanes, we were glad that we were behind schedule!
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| Cute little birds watching me eat lunch…just waiting for me to drop a crumb. |
We
will be here for sure for three nights, and then possibly we will go to the
Anacapa Yacht Club, which is also inside the Channel Islands Harbor, and stay
there for 3 nights. Or we will go straight to the Malibu Pier and anchor there
for a night. We’re just trying to
plan things around the weather. And…trying to stay places where it is free.
I
hope you all are having the best Thanksgiving holiday!
Love,
Maryalice, Rick and Harley
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